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TIL Chinese moso bamboo can grow almost a metre in a single day, about 35 inches.

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p8wOA TIL it is illegal in China to be reincarnated without government approval.
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rNMGe TIL that Harold Ray Presley - cousin of Elvis and a Mississippi sheriff in the 90s - was mortally wounded in a shootout in 2001, and that an 8,000 pound monument was erected in his honor. In 2008, the monument disappeared under suspicious circumstances, and its whereabouts are still unknown.
v1o1x TIL that there's an "Anti-Powerpoint Party" in Switzerland which seeks a referendum for prohibition of Powerpoint as well as of other presentation software because it "causes national economic damage" and "lowers the quality of presentation in 95% cases."
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